[Aperus]

I have some basic questions about mixing/mastering in Ableton (or any DAW for that matter) and latency.

I'm finishing a song which has multiple tracks and each track has a number of plugins.

1. I'm assuming I'm hearing the tracks that have plugins with latency? So, does this mean there's an audible delay? Or is the DAW compensating and playing everything back at the same time?

2. What if you have some tracks with plugins and other tracks without plugins? Is there latency on just the tracks with plugins? Are some tracks out of sync with others?

3. When you freeze a track - does that remove the latency on that track?

4. When you bounce the entire composition down to a two track (by exporting), does the software compensate for all plugins, line things up and remove latency?

What I ultimately want to do is use my A&H GL2400 mixer to sum all the tracks together instead of exporting to 2-track. So, I wanted to run all the tracks out of Ableton to the mixer - but that doesn't really help if some tracks are out of sync with others due to plugin latency.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Brian